Word: dismissed
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Critics, and that includes most conventional doctors, say the chief danger of alternative medicine -- aside from wasting money -- is that the patients get so carried away with unconventional cures that they dismiss regular medicine entirely. "The nightmare," says University of Chicago neurologist Clifford Saper, "is seeing someone who has a spinal-cord tumor who's been going to a chiropractor for years instead of to a doctor. You want to throw your hands up and say, 'If only I'd seen him earlier I could have helped him that much more.' " Doctors also warn about the risks of unregulated medicine...
...falling profits for the third quarter of this year. Citicorp lost $885 million largely because of red ink at its Quotron stock-reporting service and costs stemming from the layoff of 5,000 workers earlier this year. The largest U.S. banking firm said it would suspend its dividend and dismiss several thousand more workers. Among manufacturers, IBM said slumping sales caused its profits to plunge 85% in the recent quarter...
...Iran-contra hearings, campaign for Republican candidates? But for Barry, who excerpted North's autobiography, Under Fire, for this week's issue, getting a close-up look at the author in action was critical to understanding his enduring appeal. "We've all forgotten Olliemania," he says. "Liberals dismiss North as part of the problem with government. But conservatives go nuts when he shows up. They see him as someone who is like them, another victim of government...
...note cards he has assembled for his next book, tentatively titled Metaphysics of Quality or Metaphysics of Value. And this book, as Phaedrus describes it, sounds interesting: an attempt to find some middle path between scientists and mystics, between those who swear by facts alone and those who dismiss them as irrelevant. He believes there must be a direct conduit between the physical and the spiritual, and gropes toward an initial formulation: "All life is a migration of static patterns of quality toward Dynamic Quality...
...tendency to dismiss black women's complaints as either exaggerations or outright fantasies has grown stronger since the Tawana Brawley fiasco. In that case, a 15-year-old black girl claimed that she had been abducted and raped by a mysterious gang of white men. It turned out that she had cooked up the story. Some feminists believe the doubts about black women's veracity stirred up by Brawley's lies may have led to acquittals in several rape cases in which the victim was a black woman...